There and Back Again: A Hobbit's Movie (BEGIN WRITING YOUR DOCTOR WHO CROSSOVER FICS)

Grey Ghost

Cilla Black wrote: »

I'm also disappointed about del Toro. Dude's Smaug would have been incredible looking.

I remember reading that they're going to try to keep the designs Del Toro came up with while he was still attached

Can't confirm that though

Weaver

Yes, the Silmirillion is a very bland read and can't be translated directly into a film. But damnit, there is some fucking amazing stuff set in there that you just have to fill in the blanks.

Vargas Prime

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Cilla Black wrote: »

I'm also disappointed about del Toro. Dude's Smaug would have been incredible looking.

I remember reading that they're going to try to keep the designs Del Toro came up with while he was still attached

Can't confirm that though

I read the same thing. Dude had already done a lot of design and prep work for the movie in the time that the actual production was stalled.

ALso, I'm trying to figure out where exactly they are going to end the first movie. I can't figure out what would make a good climax for the first movie, while still leaving enough material for an entire second film...

Franko

what the fuc? is this the new twilight movie?

George Fornby Grill

Franko wrote: »

what the fuc? is this the new twilight movie?

yes

Tonkka

I'm with Rank, I REALLY hope they don't fuck this up because it is pretty much the best book.

But since the book is so good they might destroy it.

Mystral721

Goddamn it, the actor' union's brief hissy fit better not have fucked up filming in New Zealand.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/govt-pulling-all-stops-save-hobbit-3848850

George Fornby Grill

Reread this a month or two back

still don't understand how tolkein was able to create something so readable and also make the main trilogy.
It's not amazingly dense, but boy does it get boring

Tonkka

George Fornby Grill wrote: »

Reread this a month or two back

still don't understand how tolkein was able to create something so readable and also make the main trilogy.
It's not amazingly dense, but boy does it get boring

You mean the trilogy gets boring, right?

To this day I have never been able to finish reading Return of the King.

The Hobbit is awesome.

Uriel

I want a Dresden Files movie but The Author himself was part of production of the series and that first episode was the worst.

George Fornby Grill

yeah the trilogy starts to drag pretty bad, The Hobbit is the only book out of the LotR stuff I can stand to re-read

Fuck the trilogy, I'll just watch the movies
takes up 9 hours instead of the 40 it'd take me to read the books.

Sir Platypus

Uriel wrote: »

EDIT: Is it weird that I picture him as looking like Charles Manson?

This is now how I will always picture him.

Grey Ghost

Haha holy shit

I'd never seen this before but this is a still of Stuart Townsend in character before they recast the role

This, ladies and gentlemen, was almost our Aragorn

Uriel

Somehow he looks short.

He should have been a hobbit.

Also He managed to be Uglier than Viggo.

So maybe a Dwarf.

Grey Ghost

Uriel wrote: »

Also He managed to be Uglier than Viggo.

Are you saying that Viggo Mortensen is ugly

What the fuck is wrong with you

Tonkka

Uh oh.

Uriel

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

Also He managed to be Uglier than Viggo.

Are you saying that Viggo Mortensen is ugly

What the fuck is wrong with you

I uhhh don't think so personally.

I always thought, besides Ian Mckellen he was the best looker in the movie.

All the women swoon over Bloom though.

Grey Ghost

Oh good! We can still be friends then

Uriel

We were friends? :3

Grey Ghost

Well that's a bit strong, actually

Uriel

That's reassuring.

Most of my friends hate me now!

SwissLion

You are like the buzzing of flies to etcetera...

I am super excited about this movie.

Martin Freeman has been delightful in pretty much everything I've seen him in

Uriel

Lexxy

Richard Armitage as... a dwarf??

I... I don't understand D:

Kusuguttai

lexxy he is THORIN OAKENSHIELD
the most badass dwarf in fantasy literature

besides tyrion lannister obv

Lexxy

But he's so pretty.

Kusuguttai

SO IS THORIN

Lexxy

He is now that Richard is playing him!

Avraham

The Hobbit, starring Haley Joel Osment as Biblo, directed by Steven Speilberg

Weaver

This won't come as any surprise, but I read all of [what was available at the time, Simiril-to-RTK] and also the entire Dune saga in one big rush during the 6th grade back in 87 or 88.

edit: I've read them since, but yeah, early influence.

Uriel

I read Those in 6th grade too.

I was BORN in 87 though.

Weaver

t Uriel

The first movie I was taken to as a newborn

Alien.

Uriel

They took babies to alien?

Good movie though.

One of my favorites.

Shit man Ghostbusters and Back to the Future two of my favorite movies came out like 3 years before I was born.

Shit the NES was out tow years to the day before I was born.

I didn't get one untill like 1993 though.

We had an atari for a bit but I dropped an orange popsicle in it.

Sorry about the nostalgia but I found some old Weird Al discs.

Weaver

80's movies were the funnest movies.

Ghostbusters 1/2
Blues Brothers
Rad
Gleaming the Cube
Back to the Future
Highlander
Flashdance
Gremlins
Lethal Weapon
etc.

Uriel

That reminds me is Mad Max really worth watching?

Despite Mel Gibson?

Weaver

Yes. That was decades before he lost his mind.

Tossrock

Weaver wrote: »

80's movies were the funnest movies.

Ghostbusters 1/2
Blues Brothers
Rad
Gleaming the Cube
Back to the Future
Highlander
Flashdance
Gremlins
Lethal Weapon
etc.

Weaver

I completely missed the entire vote for pedro thing.

I may have been living abroad.

RubberAC

I read the hobbit and lord of the rings books when i was in grade 2/3
they turned me into the biggest nerd ever and it was so worth it
fuck i cannot wait to see me some 3d Beorn kickin' ass

Uriel

I jumped straight to LoTR after reading the fourth Harry Potter.

I read the hobbit afterward and by seventh grade I was reading Silmarillion.

Today I'm lucky to be able to read trash like Jim Butcher.